“With laser-like focus and a matter-of-fact style, Mike Hawkins outlines what
it takes for people and organizations to succeed. Read Activating Your Ambition
and prepare yourself for new heights of success!?/i> - Marshall Goldsmith, NYT
and WSJ #1 best-selling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and the
recently published WSJ best-seller Succession: Are You Ready?

“This is a life-changing book! It shows you how to get more out of yourself
and fulfill more of your potential than you may have thought possible.?/i> -
Brian Tracy, author of How Leaders Lead.

“Mike Hawkins?book on ambition is based on sound principles of behaviour
change and is written in a clear and lucid style.?/i> - Ian H Robertson - PhD
MRIA, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Institute of
Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin and author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking
Your Brain’s Untapped Potential

“A comprehensive distillation of sound advice and practical research that
will benefit a wide range of readers.?/i> - Jack Zenger, co-author of the
best-selling The Extraordinary Leader and The Inspiring Leader and CEO of Zenger
Folkman.

About Activating Your Ambition

It has long been said that you can do anything you put your mind to. Yet, in
this ground breaking book, Mike Hawkins reveals the flaw in this traditional
thinking. While believing you can do something is critical, it is insufficient
on its own. Based on over twenty-five years of practical experience in executive
coaching, leading people, consulting, selling, and now as a coach to coaches,
Mike Hawkins explains what it truly takes to influence people, change behavior,
and achieve sustainable results.

By reading Activating Your Ambition, you will discover how easy it can be to
learn new skills, overcome bad habits, and improve performance. You will find
out how to conquer the primary obstacles to improvement, how to move outside of
your comfort zone, and how to turn your ambitions into realities.

The eight principles of Activating Your Ambition show you how to build
confidence, be more successful at work, improve your health, and enhance your
relationships. You will have clarity in your goals and be well on your way to
focused improvement and long term success.

Whether you are coaching yourself, others, or simply looking for insight into
what it takes to be successful in working with people, you will find this book
an invaluable resource.

Welcome to Activating Your Ambition: A Guide to Coaching the Best Out
of Yourself and Others written by seasoned executive coach, consultant, and
award-winning author Mike
Hawkins. To learn more about Activating Your Ambition, see:

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An Economical Way to Improve Skills and Team Performance - Company Book Clubs

Activating Your AmbitionTM is
uniquely qualified to be a book club resource. The targeted
behaviors and practical applications discussed in the book stimulate three
important conversations: 1) ones that employees want to have with their bosses,
2) bosses want to have with their employees, and 3) employees want to have with
their peers. It brings out the importance of setting goals, the criticality of
ongoing professional development, reaching individual excellence, and how to
raise the bar of team performance.
Try meeting once a week, e.g. Monday morning or lunchtime for an hour, and
reviewing 1-2 chapters at a time. Rotate responsibility between people each week
for summarizing the chapter(s) - in ten minutes or less. Then open the meeting
up for general discussion. Close the meeting with each person giving their
“lesson learned?from the chapter(s) and what they intend to do that week with
their new found knowledge. There is no better or more economical approach than
this to creating important employee dialog, imparting knowledge, and moving
knowledge into application.
As a limited time offer, email the author, Mike Hawkins at
ambition@alpinelink.com, to schedule a time to join
your team for a no charge 30 minute conference call to close out your book club
series.

Raising the Level of People's Performance

After being part of many organizational turnarounds,
helping individuals achieve their goals, and to be sure experiencing disappointments
along the way, we've learned firsthand what it takes for people and
initiatives to be successful. Activating Your AmbitionTM is the result of what
we’ve learned in the process of failing and succeeding in raising the level of
people's performance.
A key principle
we've learned is
that the people and collections of people that are most successful are action
oriented. In particular, they continuously look for opportunities to improve.
They have an “I can do better?attitude. But this attitude isn’t the reason that
seemingly everything they touch turns to gold. The root of their success lies in
what gives them this attitude. It is the confidence that comes with having the
ability to develop, improve, and overcome hardship. They don't rely on one
strength, the proverbial hammer looking for a nail, or their past
accomplishments. They continuously develop. They refine their strengths, overcome bad
habits, and build a robust
set of capabilities that provide tremendous competence and confidence.

Raising the bar of
performance doesn't require analytical intelligence or a special genetic make-up. It depends more on desire and discipline.
At
the practical level where people turn what they want to do into how they do
it, it takes the right mindset and ability to
execute. And its not the ability of a single hammer, but the
ability of a suite of tools each accomplishing the task for which it was
intended.
The asterisk after "You can do anything you set your mind to"*represents the fine print that is often overlooked. It is the reality that
effecting change on an individual or organizational basis requires more than
knowing what to do or wanting to do something. Change that achieves its fullest
potential and is sustainable requires more than knowledge or desire. Both are
important, but are insufficient on their own.

Many Business Initiatives Fall Short

Many
business initiatives, strategic plans, and training programs fail to deliver
their potential because they are implemented as impersonal isolated
quick-fix programs that ignore the individual's or organization’s ability to execute.
Standalone and impersonal might work for installing a new piece of equipment,
but where behavioral change and human improvement are required, it isn’t
effective. Behavioral change best happens when it is made personal. It must not
only be embedded into the fabric of the organization, but into every
individual’s ability. Initiatives that are detached from the enablers to
behavioral change rarely achieve their intended results.

Activating Your
Ambition outlines a straightforward means to accomplishment by focusing on what it
takes to effect behavioral change. It is a mindset and approach that helps you
and those you influence make real and sustainable change. It is based on eight
principles that provide the tools to overcome obstacles and reach new levels of achievement. It
is a framework you can use over and over to develop new skills, stop bad habits,
create new behaviors, and achieve new results. It is a practical approach that will give you everlasting insight into how to get out of your
comfort zone and reach new levels of success that may have eluded you before.

The unique value of Activating Your Ambition is the how, not merely the
what or the why of self-improvement. Rather than coming away merely informed or feeling entertained,
you learn specifically how to make substantive and sustainable
improvements in yourself and in the people around you. It enables you to
seize the opportunity for improvement that lies within you, in your work, in
your home, in your place of worship, or wherever. Its proven principles and insights provide the practical means to reaching levels of performance
that you might not have thought possible.

Activating Your Ambition is for employees who want to
perform better in their jobs and make more money. It is for managers that want to
become better coaches to their employees. It is for executives who want
to become better leaders. It is for parents who want to raise better children.
It is for spouses who want to improve their marriage. It is for athletes who
want to spend more time on the winner’s podium. It is for anyone that wants to
ensure the books they read, the seminars they attend, the initiatives they
conceive, the plans they create, or the coaching they receive gets reliably
applied and transformed into sustainable results. It is for anyone that wants to
reliably turn their ambitions into realities.

Alpine Link

Alpine Link helps individuals, managers, teams, and coaches activate their ambitions through
books and other
resources:

Activating Your Ambition Books:

Activating Your Ambition: A Guide to Coaching the Best Out of
Yourself and Others

Activating Your Ambition Workshops and Seminars - one day and
half-day programs
customized to your needs and provided at your choice of venue.
workshop brochure

Activating Your Ambition Executive Coaching - one-on-one coaching to help
people improve their performance, develop new habits, and develop their SCOPE of Leadership?
competency.

Activating Your Ambition Executive Coaching for Executive Coaches - Training for
managers and executive coaches who want to learn the eight principles that underpin great
coaching and reliably
enable people to make sustainable changes in their behavior.